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 owing to the grades abeyance. On to say that co-operative distribution or another present there capacity business recent .sharp fall in of octton cloth, this proposal is now probably yet come can be utilized widely the whole it would the time has not societies number the price of held in be true when for the administration of famine relief. In decade this stage may be reached; but st are three serious obstacles. The o! rural societies for undertaking extraneous efficiently is still extremely limited. Their is small. They do not comprise the whole population, even in villages where they exist, and' find grove difoultios in dealing with non-members. training which societies in the and independence and the they offer to the practice o! thrift fail to have s moral effect Secondly self-reliance which scarcely members the face which o! s blindly lift the learnt more give inooniivos and pockets of diminished, improvements intensively. accumulated the excessive enterprise the mortgos cleared off, famine should share sowksrs. Old debts have been protective land be stronger than elsewhere. of the produce of their labor not been drained away into the undertaken, cultivation improved The some members reserves, ought therefore to have hidden sway under their hearth-stones, which will help. thom to. struggle through the year. Co-operation s no msgc Sesame to create these benefits by its mere existence. But on their should be of the greatest value in general disaster. Instead of relying on (overnment or charitable organizations to burden off their shoulders, thex will have the principles of self help and will make s determined effort to stand on their own legs the ordinary villager. If the society has been than well run, the position o! the members st the opening